On Friday Trey and I drove up to Sweetwater, TN to join my dad and brother David to celebrate Peepaw’s 90th birthday (on the 23rd). My dad brought a Dairy Queen ice cream cake (Peepaw’s favorite) for the occasion.
On Saturday Tommy and Betty Haun joined at the Dinner Bell (another favorite of Peepaw’s) and afterwards we ate cake back at the house. Then Trey, David, and I went down to the nursing home in Madisonville to visit Grammaw. She was in really good spirits that day and we had a nice time with her. I read the story of “Brer Rabbit and Da Tar Baby” to her and Trey and they both really enjoyed it.
Trey has had a bit of a mean streak lately and it seems to be tied to a larger interest in exploring emotions. He gets very dramatic about things and exercise all 98 of his facial muscles. He loves to talk with grimaces and glares about how he is “upset”, “disappointed”, or “embarrassing” (embarrassed) and often I catch him making faces in the mirror.
This morning he wasn’t too keen on the rain outside because we got wet getting in&out of the car on they way to preschool. As we walked into the building this is the conversation we had.
“Daddy, when I get to heaven I’m gonna hit God!” he said with a scowl.
“Now why would you say that? We don’t hit our friends,” I replied .
Still frowning he answered “But He’s being mean. He’s making it rain on me.”
“Just because you don’t like the rain doesn’t mean you can hit Him. You should tell Him you are sorry,” I suggested.
The tone of his voice softened and with a bit of concern Trey then said “But He can’t hear me. He’s in heaven and that’s all the way in France.”
The Good News is that God forgives Trey (and the rest of us) when we have such bad, selfish attitudes towards Him. It’s also pretty good news that heaven isn’t in France.
Monday was a beautiful day and after the past 2 weeks of cold weather and rain Trey and I had to get out. We headed about 20 miles north to Lake Juliette to find the mysterious Rum Creek Wildlife Management Area. Google Maps has it completely wrong, where they label it to be is actually on the property of Georgia Power’s massive coal-fired power plant.
Turns out that Scherer Plant is the United States’ largest single point-source for carbon-dioxide emissions (a mere 25.3 million tons per year to be exact). In fact, in 2007 it was ranked 20th highest CO2 emitter in the world (out of 50,000 power plants worldwide)! Their ash ponds have also been of some concern after the disaster in East TN last year. I’ve been here in Macon for almost 18 months and no one told me that polluting, monstrosity was in my backyard.
Now I’m not one to dive into the whole global warming debate, but I do know that that much carbon-dioxide being emitted in one place can’t be good. Trey’s take on it was “I don’t like it. It puts smoke up and down and it hurts my eyes!” I agree, it is a bit of an eye sore in the middle of Lake Juliette.
After getting directions from GA Power’s friendly security guards we head to the south side of the lake and found a muddy road leading into the woods. The area doesn’t have any hiking trails and I couldn’t find a good map online anywhere (remember I said mysterious) so we just followed an old road into the woods to the lakeside. Trey had a blast playing with his toy digger/bulldozer on all the rocks covered in moss. He also continued to exercise his tree climbing talents (he’s getting good enough to keep his mother very concerned). We actually spent about 2 hours just hanging out in the woods before heading home. Fun times!
I ordered a “poor man’s steadycam” from steadycam.org and Trey and I went down to the lake’s spilllway to test it out.
From the “do-it-yourself” images on the web site I expected the thing to look like junk but it is actually a really nice polished looking apparatus complete with caps on the ends and foam grips. Definitely worth paying the $39.99 for it instead of building it myself with parts from Home Depot that cost $14.
On Friday Trey and I drove up to Sweetwater, TN to join my dad and brother David to celebrate Peepaw’s 90th birthday (on the 23rd). My dad brought a Dairy Queen ice cream cake (Peepaw’s favorite) for the occasion.
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